The Collaborative International Dictionary
Madrigalist
Madrigalist \Mad"ri*gal*ist\, n. A composer of madrigals.
Wiktionary
madrigalist
n. 1 A composer of madrigals. 2 A singer or interpreter of madrigals.
WordNet
madrigalist
n. a singer of madrigals
Usage examples of "madrigalist".
As a madrigalist he was inferior to Morley, Wilbye and Gibbons, though even in this branch of his art he often displays great charm and individuality.
When they set a piece of poetry to music, the madrigalists set it phrase by phrase, giving to each phrase, even each word, its suitable expression and linking the successive moods by a constant adaptation of the polyphonic writing, not by the imposition from outside of a structural pattern.
The Italian madrigalists chose their texts, for the most part, from the best poets.